They do point out that most of the population lives in misery. welcomed the new government in the Philippines. If you look at today's papers, you'll notice that the U.S. In fact, it's still in place in the Philippines. And, of course, a paramilitary force - the Philippine constabulary - in case things go wrong. They imposed a system of close surveillance over the entire population, co-opting a Westernized elite who would be able to live in luxury, breaking up nationalist groups by various methods - sowing rumors, buying people off. crafted a new technique of control of the population, using the most advanced technology of the day. Al McCoy now has a fine study of what happened after the conquest, which he goes into in 800 pages of detail. We know what happened during the conquest with, as usual, the most "benevolent intentions," while slaughtering a couple of hundred thousand people and committing massive war crimes. The Philippines is the standard model from which many of the modern programs of neo-colonialism were carefully crafted.
They are taking the advice of Israeli industrialists who some years ago suggested that Israel should shift from a policy of colonialism to one of neo-colonialism. In recent years, the U.S./Israel have somewhat modified the policy. And we will see where it all ends up."Īnd that's exactly the policy they're following. He advised his colleagues at the time that we should tell the Palestinians, "We have nothing for you, you're going to live like dogs, and whoever will leave will leave. Moshe Dayan, who was one of the more dovish members of the Israeli elite, happened to be defense minister in charge of the Occupied Territories in 1967. could in the 19th century, so you just get them to leave. You can't get away with that these days, the way the U.S. There's no sense in taking care of them, just exterminate that "hapless race" of Native Americans. It's like the United States and the indigenous population. Israel doesn't want to take responsibility for them, rather it wants them to get out. That's not true for Israel and the Palestinians. Bantustans were bad enough, but they were intended to be more or less viable because it was necessary to reproduce the workforce. So, as under slavery, they had to take care of them. They were 85 percent of the population doing the work of the country. South Africa needed its black population. So the analogy to South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle is pretty misleading. They're not going to take control of the West Bank.
and Israel continue doing exactly what they are doing. There is a third option, namely that the U.S. We can win that one, like South Africa." But this view overlooks a simple point of logic. It will be one state, we'll then carry out a civil rights struggle. It's pretty common now for supporters of the Palestinians and Palestinian leaders themselves to say, "Well, we have to abandon hope in the two-state solution." As one of the Palestinian leaders said, "We should give Israel the key and let them take over the entire West Bank.